Like Gary Larson’s The Far Side, Anywhere But Here can leave you scratching your head in bemusement almost as often as it makes you laugh, but we’ve selected the very best of his first two volumes for this special collection, printed in an elegant two-color edition.

One chapter purports to explain how it feels to be black, from "bemusement" at the fancifully large number of black doctors and lawyers on TV to lingering suspicion that those crazies of your race who think whites are plotting genocide might not be so crazy.

He had both the courage to enter worlds where well-trained professionals risked blood and guts and the wit to look at their struggles with the kind of bemusement that puts life itself into perspective.